Habs’ camp (day 1)

By Chris Boucher
Although many people’s minds were elsewhere, the Canadiens opened their first day of training camp. The players skated in two different groups, during two separate on-ice sessions prior to playing a scrimmage. The lines remained fixed throughout the scrimmage. With some interesting pairings considering it’s so early in training camp.

Forward lines of note(LW, C, RW)

Brian Savage, Yannick Perreault, Oleg Petrov
Martin Rucinsky, Jan Bulis, Richard Zednick
Chad Kilger, Joé Juneau, Andreas Dackell
Benoit Brunet, Benoit Gratton, Gino Odjick
Patrick Poulin, Mike Ribeiro, Marcel Hossa
Éric Chouinard, Craig Darby, Josef Balej
Éric Landry, Xavier Delisle, Jason Ward

Defensive pairings of note(LD, RD)

Stéphane Quintal, Patrice Brisebois
Sheldon Souray, Craig Rivet
Karl Dykhuis, Stéphane Robidas
Francis Bouillon, Patrick Traverse
Ron Hainsey, Martti Jarventie
Andrei Markov, Mathieu Descoteaux

Box Score (Or reasonable facsimile thereof)

(RED) Mike Ribeiro (penalty shot) ** 1-0
(RED) Mike Ribeiro (Stéphane Robidas) ** 2-0
(RED) Patrick Poulin (Karl Dykhuis) ** 3-0
(RED) Patrick Traverse (Jan Bulis, Richard Zednick) ** 4-0
(RED) Martin Rucinsky (penalty shot) ** 5-0
(WHITE) Oleg Petrov (Brian Savage) ** 5-1
(RED) Richard Zednick (Karl Dykhuis) ** 6-1

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